254 scoMBRnsocin^.. 



42. Belone senegalensis. 

 Cuv. ^- Val. xviii. p. 421. 



D. 15. A. 15-16. P. 11. 



The free portion of the tail is compressed, deeper than broad. Tlie 

 length of the head is two -fifths of the total (without caudai) ; its 

 upper siu-face flat, with a broad, shallow, scaly median groove ; 

 superciHary region faintly striated ; base of the intermaxillaries de- 

 jiresscd, maxillary only half hidden by the prasorbital. Teeth of 

 moderate size ; vomerine teeth none. The diameter of the eye is 

 loss than the width of the intcrorbital space, and contained twice 

 and three-quarters in the length of the postorbital jwrtion of the 

 head. Body broad, subcylindrical,- its depth being considerably less 

 th.in the length of the pectoral fin, which is more than the distance 

 of the opercular margin from the orbit. Ventral fin somewhat nearer 

 to the head than to the caudal. The middle and hinder dorsal and 

 anal rays subequal in length, short, the last tenninating at a con- 

 siderable distance from the root of the caudal. Caudal fin cmargi- 

 nate. Scales very thin, rather small, and deciduous. 



West Afiica. 



a. Adult. Sierra Leone. 



b. Teeth on the jyalntc. 



43. Belone vnlgaris. 



Ciar-fish, Gar-pike ; Horn-fish, Iloni-hocht; I'Orphie ; Niibbgadda. 

 JJ ///. Hist. rise. p. 231 (tab. P. 2. fig. 4) ; Peiin. Brit. Zool. iii. p. 28.3, 



pi. G3, and, edit. 1812, iii. p. 429, pi. 74; Couch, lirit. Fish. iv. p. 140, 



pi. 209. 

 Esox, sp., Gronov. Zoophj/I. no. 302; Mirs. Ichth. i. p. 10, no. 30. 

 Esox belone, L. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 517; Bl. taf. 33; BJ. Schn. p. 391; 



Lacep. V. p. 308 ; Midi. Faun. Dan. p. 49 ; Donov. Brit. Fish, iii, 



pi. 64 ; Turton, Brit. Faun. p. 105. 

 Mastaccembelus, sp., Klein, Pise. Miss. iv. tab. 3. fig. 2. 

 Belone vulgaris, F/e77i. Brit. An. p. 184 ; Jen. Man. p. 418 ; Fkstrotn, 



Fische Morkii, p. 72; Parnell, Wern. Mem. vii. p. 274 ; Yarrell, Brit. 



Fish. i. p. 391, 2nd edit. i. p. 442, 3rd edit. i. p. 459; Cuv. ^ Val. 



x\'iii. p. 399 ; Nilss. Skand. Faun. Fisk. p. 359. 



I'ostrata, Faber, Fische Isl. p. 152; Kriiycr, Damn. Fisk. iii. p. 257. 



Macroguathus scolopax, Gronov. Si/st. ed. Gray, p. 147. 



Youtig. 



Hemirhamphus europfeus, Yarr. Muri. Nat. Hist. 1837, p. 505, and 

 Brit. Fish. 2nd ed. i. p. 450, 3rd ed. i. p. 409; Couch, Zooloe/ist, 

 1848, p. 1978. figs, d & e, and Brit. Fish. iv. p. 135, pi. 208. 



E.SOX brasilieusis ?, Couch, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 85. 



IleniirliampliUs obtusus, Couch, Zoologist, p. 1978, figs, a-c, and Brit. 

 Fish. iv. p. 130, pi. 208. 



baltbicus, Hornschuch. 



behnii. Van der Hoeven. 



Cf. a paper by Malm, Ofvers. Vetensli. Alcad. Fcirhandl. 1852, tab. 3, 

 where tlio author proves ilw identity of ihoso fishes with Belone. 



